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Ivan Illich
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Austrian philosopher and theologian (1926–2002)
Ivan Illich was an Austrian philosopher and theologian who lived from 1926 to 2002 and became known for his critical analysis of modern institutions and society. His work matters because he challenged conventional assumptions about how schools, hospitals, and other systems actually serve people, influencing debates about education and social progress that continue today.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 4 September 1926
- Died
- 2 December 2002
- Works
- 116
Top works
- Deschooling Society
- Niḳmat ha-refuʾah
- Ivan Illich et la société conviviale
- America latina: parole come armi
- Ivan Illich
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 35
- Total plays
- 527
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations
· 2010 · cited 11,640x
- Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
· 2008 · cited 11,131x
- Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,022x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,395x
- A 3D Map of the Human Genome at Kilobase Resolution Reveals Principles of Chromatin Looping
· 2014 · cited 8,992x
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Quotes
- “People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.”
- “In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
- “Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age.”
- “I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure (schole) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries.”
- “Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.”
- “Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Ivan Dominic Illich , ( 1926-09-04 ) September 4, 1926, Vienna , Austria
- Died
- December 2, 2002 (2002-12-02) (aged 76), Bremen , Germany
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Christian philosophy
- Main interests
- Philosophy of education philosophy of technology
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.ivanillich.org.mx
- Image
- 1969 press photo of Ivan Illich.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1926-09-04
- date of death
- 2002-12-02
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Ivan Dominic Illich (/ɪˈvɑːn ˈɪlɪtʃ/ iv-AHN IL-itch; German: [ˈiːvan ˈɪlɪtʃ]; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that he argued demotivates and alienates individuals from the process of learning. His 1975 book Medical Nemesis, importing to the sociology of medicine the concept of medical harm, in which he argues that industrialised society impairs quality of life through processes such as overmedicalisation, the pathologisation of normal conditions, and increased dependency on medical institutions. Illich called himself "an errant pilgrim."
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